Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-14
DAILY HERALD.
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES
t,lcan ed from Our Southern Call.
rOruia Il changes.

rOrnia f changes.
The San Diego Union gives the fol
lowing interesting railroad news;
A meeting of the directors of tn
Niagara and San Jacinto railroad com
nanY was held last evening. Fred. 4
Perris. chief engineer, and K. $. Babcock
one of the directors of the San Jacintt
VALLEY railroad, were present. Enginee
Humphrey, of the Niagara road, pre-
sented report of his surveys of the frs
two miles of the proposed route. II,
found the grade to be 26 feet for tht
first mile and 20 feet for the second
The first two miles of the road interpost
the only difficulties to be overcome. A
grade Of fully twice the slant found wa,
expected. The remaining seventeen
miles furnish no engineering diff
culties, the ground being per
fectly level and without gully" Mr.
Perris, although representing rival line,
conceded not only feasibility but extra
ordinary advantages to the route. The
roads agreed to use the same track from
the town of Winchester to San Jacinto,
a distance of about eight miles. The
road which gets to Winchester first will
construct the track from there on, and
the other one will be compelled to pay a
royalty. The Niagara people have
graded over half mile of line, and have
a large gang employed, while the Perris
road has not broken ground. The San
Jacinto Valley road is said to want a
subsidy of at least $4,000 mile, or about
$75, 900. 1t is not yet absolutely certain
that San Jacinto will be able. to furnish
the amount. The Niagara people are
anxious to take land, three thousand
acres of which it has already secured.
The estimated cost of the Niagara rail.
road per mile is $4,000.
The surveyors of the Southern Pacific
have passed Escondido in setting grade
stakes.
The plans submitted by Chief Engin
eer Perris for the new union depot were
last evening approved and adopted by
President Hamilton. The building will
be 100 feet in length and fifty feet IN
width. 1t will have but one story. A
large clock tower surmouhts the struct-
ure. This is so high that Trustee Carl.
son remarked when he saw the drawing,
that if the conditions of the contract by
which the land for the building was
given were not fulfilled, and the block
and building came back to the city, he
would favor donating it for church pur-
poses. The ornameutation of the build
ing is very elaborate--almost profuse. IL
is handsome building, and eminently
satisfactory to the trustees. The guar
an.eed cost of the building, Sl5,0 900, will
not cover more than half the expense of
its erection.
Re pactahle proportions are being
assumed by the grade of the San Diego
Central. A little less than mile is
ready for the ties. These are in M.
tional City. Steel rails for the road
have already been ordered. Work is
being delayed by a lack of men.
Nearly all of the available construc.
tion force of the Atchson, Topeka and
Santa Fe in southern California is push.
ing the branch from Santa Ana to this
city. At its completion all will be put
on the San Diego Central.
The Murrieta and San Jacinto road
has not given up the ghost yet, in spite
of rivals many and powerful. 1t has
surveyors setting grade stakes.
SAN Bernardino.
The Courier says: "We have it on
excellent authority that Tom Coover,
believed generally to have died on the
desert some two years ago, is alive, well
aud a resident of Old Mexico. Gentle.
men from Riverside assert that they met
and spoke to him recently in San Fran.
cisco. Another report has it that his
family are disposing of their property
and going to JOIN him. One of the men,
o frontiersman, who went out at the
time of his disappearance, to search for
him, says that the circumstances were
very suspicious.
The Inder publishes the following
challenge: 81 do hereby challenge M.
Chick, of Los Angeles, to shoot me a
match of one hundred live birds, Hurl-
incham rules, leaving out the hundred
yard boundary, allowing the shooter
three minutes to retrieve his bird. Two
hundred dollars side, to take place in
San Bernardino, on Sunday, March 10th.
now place in the hands of Joseph
Craig fifty dollars forfeit. If Mr.. Chick
means business, let him accept my
challenge and cover my forfeit.
"GUs KNIGHT"
The following items are clipped from
the Herald:
The Santa Ana, Orange and Tustin
street railway company has decided to
extend its track down Fourth to Olive
street. to accommodate a large number
of people living in that neighborhOod.
The day is not distant when the rails of
this company will be laid on all the prin-
cipal streets of Santa Ana. The town is
growing so rapidly as to necessitate such
action. Already the travel over the line
is quite large, especially so to and from
Tustin. Grading on the extension began
Thursday afternoon.
Quite number Of good sales OF real
estate were made here this week. Capt.
Jennings bought the one third interest
of Mr.. Spurgeon in the lot corner of
Bush and Fourth streets for $1,000 {.
Hawkins and Goldsmith sold the two
lots on Bush and Fifth streets to Parker
Bros. & Harris for $6500. A. M. Hath.
away to T. d. Huff, lots and 10, block
3. Blee's addition, $1,000. T. j. Kimball
to the same, 10 acres northeast of town,
$4,000. B .lcom and Culver to Ward,
Stanwood and Silvera, $1,000. Same to
s. Russell. $4,000. Jennings and wife to
II. B Ferguson, lots 7, s, 8 and 10, Jen.
nings' addition, $500.
The following were the exports from
the Santa Ana station for the week end.
March 10th: Eggs, III cases, 1920
pounds; fowls. coops, ll2O pounds; or
apges, 1925 boxes, 1913, l60 pounds; limes,
2O4 boxes, 4l7O pounds; raisin,s, 1866
boxes, n, $50 pounds; wine, 10 barrels
442O pounds; honey, 6 cases, 160 pounds;
nursery stock, SO packages, $3.50 pounds;
wine, 4 cars, $4,000 pounds; cheese, q
cases, 100 pounds; tallow, 2 barrels
547O pounds; general merchandise o6'
800 pounds. Total, 46l, $40 pounds.
The Standard says: Mr.. James Shee'
han. of San Juan Capistrano. gave us
call on Thursday. He says the Southern
Pacific railroad company have large